Blog

15 September 2014
Working on the web can be really fun and really rewarding, but a lot of love needs to be given to those managing these web projects. Building a new web application is fun and exciting, but needs and requirements of a client can often be hard to gather, in this

08 September 2014
Due to a higher than expected workload this year Sinatra Cookbook has been far more delayed than expected. The book, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter in December 2013, was planned for release in June, however this week we will be releasing the first 8 chapters in epub, mobi,

15 July 2014
Traditionally the web has been a place for the consumption of information. News, weather, menu for a local restaurant or opening times of a high street store were all common things you would use your internet connection for. These days things have completely reversed, many internet users are now using

07 July 2014
Over the past few months we have been trying to attend as many networking events as possible to share with other businesses in South Wales what we do here at Millwood Online. It's been great meeting loads of new people, making great friends, and working with other businesses. We're in

03 June 2014
We generally work with startups and SMEs who are trying to turn their ideas into reality. Some of these are public facing applications where the application itself is the company's main business model. Others are internal applications which help support the business. In this blog post we will look at

07 May 2014
We have recently been working with a project where Polymorphic Associations have been used extensively. Here we'll give an example of how they can be used. Imagine a school or college system where both students and teachers can add posts. The post has an author but this author could

28 April 2014
When using Ruby, whether it's Rails or Sinatra, Mailchimp will often play a part in your app. You might be asking users to sign up for you latest app, or just your monthly mailing list. Gibbon is a fantastic gem that makes this really easy.

27 April 2014
When building the latest web app is key to nail the MVP (Minimum Viable Product). This is the version you test audience will see first. This is the version that's make or break. No matter how great or poor the idea is, the execution of the MVP will win your

21 April 2014
When working on client projects we use a very loose agile process. We heavily believe that iterative and incremental development is key to a successful project. We gather requirements for the project as a whole, maybe not strict user stories, but just the functionality needed for each feature. These

01 April 2014
Today we're proud to announce the launch Heroku Subletting, a great way to share Dynos. Since becoming Heroku partners last year we have been looking for ways in which we can improve the integration with their service. Heroku Subletting is that way. Sometimes an application needs more redundancy and